Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > On Thursday 26. April 2007 17:10, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> Actually, I've a feeling that it would be trivial to do with just >>> about any existing packaging system ... >> Yes pretty much every version of Linux, and FreeBSD, heck even Solaris >> if you are willing to run 8.1. > > Gentoo is still on version 8.1.8, though, and even that is soft-masked > (stable is at 8.0.12). Seems like a problem with getting 8.2.x to build > on this platform: > > <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-534835-highlight-postgresql.html> I run 8.2.x on a Gentoo/x86_64 development box (just did the upgrade to 8.2.4 yesterday) using the postgresql-experimental overlay (via layman) and have run into no problems. Everything has compiled, installed/upgraded and been run with no hiccups along the way, nor any hacky workarounds. The 8.2 series isn't in the main portage tree yet because, as I understand it (and I could certainly be mistaken), the contributors maintaining the ebuilds are reworking the slotting setup as well as cleaning up the distinctions between server/library/client-only installs. Granted, I'm not advising a mission-critical server that happens to be running Gentoo use a portage overlay explicitly marked "experimental" for its RDBMS package management -- just pointing out that there is a pretty straight-forward way to get the 8.2 series through portage if you're willing to use an overlay for it. -Jon -- Senior Systems Developer Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/
